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News FromMilwaukee('.l'UGHT AT V('tyFE B'YING.lHe. I tlhe Proof. BIa'k on White.only DirtHy Polltkw.lt. ginning the latter part of lastwv ek. W\hen its joke voting-contesthas ontiy attraet d r sp ni..ss from lessthan t\wo hundred people, the Journaldesperat ly and sauddenly threw offits mask and started out to buy vot "sIn order to save Its contest fromtutter coll:apse. It had blank ballotsprint. d. a dodger hyst.rically appealIng to its readers t, conmc to the rescue, and envcgilpes with "Your News.boay Will 'all for This," printed entht nm. and these. It gave out to Itsntw\tays , togeth r ith a litl * c'reular (which we reproduce h.'rew!'Iiby ihotographic engraving pa s:' st5,telling them to beg.in a campaigi' ofhustling in votes and that for , achvote thel were ablae to wheedl' ou: ,oftheir customeairs they wolluti lh, git al'Live c' lnt'.Iteatl I\lery '(wil lof ThL I etter.To the NwsholyToday you are .aing suppllied , lthprinted circulars andl blanlk a nvelopescontaining blank hallots.Thes,' printed circulars and blankenvelopes are to he da.litv red by youto your regular customers (one ofeach to each customer). On Saturday cail on each cuastomer andl gath, rIn the aenva alpes.Aft. r you have collected the envelolpes, tak. thIem to your dtlistrct orbranch manager's aottl' andl thereyou will Ihe rewarded for the serviceyou have enher d tus. Do yaour workthaoroughly and profit more by yourwo-rk You will get FlI' Cealts foreach envelopall that yoiu turn in Saturdiy.Be sure that you dao not acceptmnora than one e nv\lopeal from oneperson.It, surae Ito ask every custltonmeir youcal( on Saturday for his "VotlngEna, loae.Yours very truly.THE JOL'RNAL COMPANY,The Journal, we learn, has beensending reporters all over town try*ing to get leading old paty politiclausto express favor of Its nonpartisanvoting contest, but without resul.Bu it shows this. That the Journal,while pretending great civic virtuefor its efforts, has not been borneagain, by a long shot, and that it issimply Ila.ling a game, and a verynasty ,one at that, because absolutelyhypocriticalAcording to the Journals own admission, the votes it bought Mondaycost it $50. and the votes it boughtTuesday $40. And so on. It is stillbuying votes, in the hopes of making an artificial showing that will foolt',' gudgeons'LOCAL LABOR NOTEI4.Ol.y Fathers Turn Down the UnionMen of Helena.The city council of this city totallyIgnored the reasonable reqeusts ofthe Central Trades & Labor Assemblywhen they ganted the North-WesternMetas Co. a free franchise to runpower over a private line to theirplant, and then refused to answer acouteous letter sent to them by theworkers. The letter to the councilis in part:Honorable 8irsSome time ago you granted a freefranchise to the North-Western Metals Co.. * " Now, if you wish tosee a man get a fair day's pay for afair day's work, we think that beforegiving free franchises, that the workers should be concerned. If we arewrong in this matter then send us aletter that can be read before ourmeeting."To datie that most honoable (?)body has not sent a word of correction, instruction or explanation.(hI9newc· Rewt urtlnl.Last week witnessed a class struggle between those upholding unionconditions and those who do not givefairness a thought.The parties concerned are theCooks & Wailters' Union of this cityand the Chinese restaurants.The Cooks & Waiters, through theirable epresentative Mr. Lewis, gaveout a statement that the conflict wasdue to he refusal on the part of theChinamen to give union conditionsto their employes.The Cooks &Walteras nsisted thatthere were a great number of unemployed union men in town that wereentitled to work but would not betraytheir confidence In th, Ir fellowmen.thus the difficulty.By earful pickutiml. the unionmen were able to turn lunor trade tonmon houses and in thu, manner givethe union mien out of work a bette;chane, to, earn an existann rt Itunderstood that there is contllrnatlion in the swill rooms of the enemy.erne restaurant is about to close downcompletely whihe another Ia to vacatebecause of a dlmculy with the landowners.The unions of this city are gettingso progressive that a non-union houseof any kind will be a curio in a shorttime.In the meantime the union housescontinue, with their employec, continue to prosper.II(N)TI RS COLUMN.An order com.es In from Carbon('ounty for 25 pap irs per week. Car.lon County " ill Ih, represented in thelegislature afltr the, next election.('omrad, John Kaitv\laI sends in forthe News.Comnrade 0. O). letton nearly tookthe tile., cat off it' fteet when hiesent in ten nalnes aecomlpanled tbyth. wherewlthai. Slettuon is a railroad man and has taken 1up the light.\V," will hell, him and the rest of the,locomotive liremen.Missioula still sends in for the Nlewwthis time Comrade Ii. II. .Mercerhlants in a list of filt, Mrrer ranfor mantor in Missoula and is awaketo the ln eds of tlh , woirkersMr. John Bolt of Il r lodge ren" ws his suh.('om. Geio. L.odge sends in $12.50to helpl the good work al;.ong. ,Lodgeis a coal minor and realizes the b.In*lit of a lilghting pal r.Two railroad operattors at llivuletPs nld in their subs to the News. andlik, aill railrial men., thy are. witllh1s.('lom. V. ..t Johnson of the Federall'nion snds in for a lnmdle of i .,per week.Hozeman sends in ,ight Iuhll thisweek which goes to show that thepeople the-r, are up to date.A shower of subs come from Livilngstolln. The lflcel boy has notcounted them al, yetThe Street ('ar men of Helena Insist upon lending their good support."We admire the grand manner Inwhich you handled the outrageousMilitia Law."'Up to date no ('hinamen have subscribed to the News. Hard Prods!Corm. A. Gray and Gen Cockrell.both of Deer L.,dge, want their nameson the list.Anaconda sends in an even dozenThe Railroad men of Hielena stillnames, they want a line on the facts.pour in their subs. More nali' Inthe masters coffin Hurray! !A Geat Northern railroad man senthis sub. Oh, no It didn't come fromJim Hill.JURY BOX REDUCEID(Continued from page one.)said that he was a Boclallat and thathe had no prejudice agains capitalpunishment. He said he was willingto lay aside his opinion and try thecase thorougly upon its merits andon law and evidence.To the deep disappointment of thedefense Judge Bordwell ruled that in.asmuch as Coward had asked severalformer miners regarding the action ofdynamite and discovered from theirreplies, there were no developmentsin connection with the Times disastersuch as always follow the detonationof dynamite or high explosives hehad made "an Independent investigation" and so was ineligible.This decision hurt the defensedeeply as there had been, up to thattime, some hope of getting men whoadmitted their belief in the gastheory.When Coward took the stand, thedistrict attorney could scarcely awaitthe man.He Instan:ly shouted:"You are a Socialist," and as thedrowsy court awoke, he continued Ina high tone. "You don't deny youare a Socialist?"Coward qultely said he was a Soclalist; that he had read Socialistt books and elterature; that he read thet "Appeal o Reason" and Los AngelesTimes To questions he said he didi believe much he read in the Timesin fact doubted about all of It hutt wanted to keep posted on what wasbeing said. He said he had subscrlbed for some Socialls papers and paidr five years in advance' lie reads Call.fornia Social-Democrat.The fact that the man was a BSScialist caused the newspaper men tot jump to, the instant conclusilon hewould not be allowed to serve. Theywere (errdct though many believed:he dl~itrlct attorney would preservea s( lmllance of faIness and that therewould I., no, undue haste in dismissi Ing th", man.nox'I.II .fT VIO1'ORIS(Continued from first page.)here is running ahead of the republican choice :nd the result Is stllin doubt, :t. to, whether or not thedemocrats ,or .clalists have electedtheir mayor.Tlh'Eko. Ohio.The Loci:tlits of this city electedtwo alde'rmn '\ith more precincts tohear fronmlending Pemn.Elwood T, lIhr. locialist, is runningneck and , is n ith the demonrattcand replull!..il .in oponent for mayntand oni ,,' -a ts separate them atan early ih t' r this morning.The el. +t ,n of a $ocialist couln ilman is , ., Itt1 plnrt'drnt in this city.5lltmar, I Ietonll IIn IAm .0%uli'IesLos An., i. , c'al.--No political cam.paign ev.r v .L.c 1 in America has ap.proached iii. fIght that is n,,w Inprogress :. I. ...\n Ang.s. Job itarrlman and r,, ry othrll candidate onthe Soci-1.: ti'k, t wsent triumphantlythrough th, iprimnar. electlon with thehighest t, t . \csr ·ast In this city.The I,-% -·t \ot, for any Socialistcandidat. t ith one. bare exception.was high. r thIan the highest opponenton the s e-,ided (lood Governmentticket.Labor it :ing org.anizations in LosAngeles ar, appalled at the size ofHarriman.s ' ote and the way theworkers stood solid for every manon the Socialist tick, t Harriman'sbig vote w as scarcely one thousandhigher thin that of his comrans whoran with him on the ticket. Thisshows that la bor unions an Socialistsare stanliing solid. should. tJshoulder in the tight and that all ,ineshave vani-hl d. and the union men areIn the ranks of the Socialists and thatthe Sociatlits are in the I'nli,n.Los Ang,.1 s IN today seethlhtn withSocialist ss ntiment and thousandswho voted for Mushet. who ran independently for mayor against lHarrlman, have made a quick flop to theleader. There is an unprecedenteddemand for Socialist literature andhundreds who have been voting theticket are Joining the party and en.listing as active workers.Re-·rganlzatlN Nevwecur).Campaign managers are swampedwith work so that a reorganizationhas been necessary and a better systerm of departments has been adopted.This divides the labor which hasgrown to be of such magnitude thatit can no longer be carried by thefew.A feature, that makes the wholecampaign unique is the registrationand prospective voting of the women.Women of the working class havebeen slow to awaken and it has takenheroic measures to get the Interestsof their class On the other hand theclub women and the wives of the bigmerchants have long been dabblingwith politics and these "intellectuals"are bending every effort to get theirclass regisered so that they may voteto keep their less fortunate sistersin economic stavery.Organisalons of women who workedfor suffrage have now been turnedInto political clubs for boosting thecapitalistic political ring which nowhas control of the city administrationWomen Woaing.81nce the primary election the women Solialists have entered with redoubled energy upon their task of en.lightening and registering the workIng women and the wives of theworkers. The method has been tosound Socialist women ahead as"runners." When a woman announces her wilhngness to registerand vote the Rocialist ticket a "highsaln" Is given and a deputy registerclerk Instantly appears and enrollsthe woman as a legal voter. If the"prospect" Is not open to reason andcannot he aroused to class consciousness then the clerk leaves her tobe registered by a "goo-goo" or gounregistered. This method has beenadopted by the club women and thewealthy workers in the cause of capltalism and It has been worked well,but they reckoned without the knowledge that the working class is reachIng Into their very kitchens and enlisting the women in behalf of the IBoclalust movement.In the stores and ottlees everykind of coercion has been practisedand scores of men and women whohave darel to express a hol,p that theworkers would win have been dlacharged This hardship put upon thedischarged ones has made them themost earnest workers in the Sociallstcause. Many of them have. een em.ployed at Sociallst headquarters andPollee R4' ewpr.tful.are the best devoted work rv.Precincts captains In lth districtswhere the heaviest captllatlist voteswere cast at the primary, r, port therewas a distinct th;wln; ,out when itwas seen that th1. ..,ei:llst. wereabout to carry the city. The policewho have heretofore unhesitatinglyclubbed the Boclalst' speakers andworkers, are now In a most deferential mood. As a matter of fact a largenumber of the patrolmen of the cityhave joined the party and red cardsare resting beneath many a blueblouse. The police realize in mostinstances that they are of the workIng class and that their Interests liewith the success of the movement.Thirty-three German societles represented by delegates met last nilhtand decided to throw their entirestrength back of the, Socialists in thefinal election. This means severalthousand votes which did not figureeither way In the primary election.The Germans have aroused their women and they are registering In largenumbes. But eight days remain forthe women to register and the countyclerk's omflre Is almost swamped withreturns.Isnkrew Itevengeful.The bankers of Los Angeles aresnarling and making covert threatsabout what will happen in case theSocialists are elected at the final votting day They are growing louderIn their mutterings and their firatopen action will be met by the So.clalista who are perfecting plans tomeet the bankers on their owngrounds. As soon as arrangementsare completed, the Socialists will tryto get before a ('learing House commlttee with the news that 20.000 accounts will he withdrawn within thenext ten days if the bankers insistthat credits will be Impaired whenthe Socialists g( Into power If thewar is to begin It may as weal beginright now. Los Angeles has a Postal·avings Bank and a method can readIly be found whereby thousands ofaccounts can he placed there.PrtilhlMtkl Taken I'p.Simultaneously with the "GoodGovernments" announcement that thecity was to be "cleaned up" came. theannouncement that an initiative petition had been filed to place a prohibition law on the ordinance books ofthe city of Ius Angeles. This hasthrown a thrill of alarm through theliquor camp and the small businessmen are greatly shocked by the prospects of a temperance town. Theliquor Interests voted solidly for Mushet for mayor and there has beenmuch speculation as to where theMushet vote would go now that he isellminated from the race. Beforethe primaries the Kept Press dec'aredthe Mushet supporters were the worstelement in the city but now they areclaiming the vote has gone into theircamp. This is not strictly true as-0 per cent of the Mushet vote willgo for Harrimcan.Following is the vote:For MayarJob Harriman .............. 20,183Geo Alexander, "Ooo-GCoo" ....16,790W. C. Mushet, Ind.-Rep. ...... 8,191Scattering .......... ...... 37'Harriman's plurality 3,393.For City AttorneyJohn W. Shenk, Goo-Ooo .....20.415Edward W Tuttle. Soc. ......19.90L D. Bechtel ............... 2,119y AuditorJohn H. Myers, C1. (1......... 20,617Geo W. Downing, Soc .........19,732Lewis C. Halser ............. 2,316AssessorWalter Mallard, O. t ........19.406A. M. Balyer, Soc.............17,139A. C. McOinty ............... 181C. M Smith ................ 5,222For the council Fred C. Wheeler,Socialist, president of the Carpenters'Union, the largest in America, led allcandidates with a vote of 18,410.Frank E. Wolfe, newspaper man,formery a telegrapher and a unionman of 25 years standing, came nextwith 16,741. A. J. Mooney, 1,8433,Mooney is a Union Mill worker andsecretary of the Building Trades coun.cil. T. W. Williams, formerly a coalminer, now a newspaper man andSocialist speaker and organiser camenext with 16,111. Alexander Kane, alumber "bucker", came next with 14,025. Fred Knerr, a waiter and secretary of his union, got 15,401. DanReagan, a striking iron moulder, nowdriving a 'aundry wagon, got 16,171.Cyrus (Curley) F. Grow, metal worker who recently served three monthsIn jail for picketing, received 16,039.0. W Whitley, a negro who has beenprominent in organising his race forSocialism, received 14,273. All thecandidates for the Goo Goos receivedless than Whitley's vote. Every Soclallst went through a leader and wilibe In the running at the finals. Theelection is looked on as a great victory, but there is no cessation In thefight. As a matter of fact it neverceased for a moment.Irowell Excite."Judge Rordwell has been readingthe election returns", was the comment on the McNamara trial whichhas been totally eclipsed by the "e.ction. The struggle for fair jurore IsItill on and not one has been put inI the jury box. Bordwell's declsl.srladicate hel realises Job Harriman isSt, bet he next amvooryhfet-ETAOIJto be the nxt mayor of the city.Montana News Pros.pectus,The Montana News will be issued hereafter by the UNION PIU'INWqand PUBLISHING COMPANY. from its offices at Helena, Montana.The said company is ncoorporated under the laws of the State ofMontana. Authorised Capital Stock.$10.000 Shares $6 00 eachObject of Curporamoa.To print and publish at the City of Helena. Montana, a weekly news.paper to be devoted to the interest of the working class of the State ofMontana and the Northwestern States, and for the porpuse of transact.Ing, carrying on and conducting a printing and publishing business inall its branchesNeed of latal Paper.The working class movement must have a powerful eocal press before it can hope to influence the government or the state as a party.Such a press can be a power in the Northwest as the expression of aworking class remarkably aggressive and devoted to freedom and justice. Without a paper of protest against the horrors of a system of pro.fit and plunder it would have been impossible to expose the DonohueMilitia bill passed by the late legislature!There is tendency to reaction In the state at present. Franchelses arebeing given away lavishly to the exploiters of the working clase--treetcars, electric lines, electric lighting, and ga-- with no provisions toallow the public to own these necessities in the future; whereas, tenand twenty years ago such franchlqes contained specifications for thetransfer of such property to the commonwealth.Blows at labor.The last legislature In Montana approprlated $10.000 for the purposeof bringing in labor to compete with the laborers aready here.Montana employers are ev en advertising in Europe for men to workin the state, while we are already overloaded with idle menLittle Revolutionary Reading.There Ma only ",00d abseribere.to Socialist papers in Montana. Wemust have at least 50.000 persons readlng Socialist papers before thespirit of protest can be aroused or the workers make their Impressupon the state and municipal governments.There are 80,000 voters in Montana, and a population of about 375.000. Cold figures tell the tale of work to be donePurposes.The News will fight the battles of the workingeless through all prtsent evils and obstacles of exploita-tlion.It will point out the emancipation from exploitation in the abolitionof the private ownership of the industrial machinery.It will direct the workers to co-operate production.It will expose the outrages of capitalism which we encounter at ourdoor.It will enter the arena and struggle with strong and self.Interestedopponents to construct better laws, Institutions, and opportunities.It will at all times inform the populace of malicious laws passed andenforced by our law making bodies.It will also bt a center from which the Initiative and Referendumwill circuiate.Plans of operatThe News will henceforth be º Socialist party paper, but not aparty-owned paper. It will be handled exclusively by the Union Printing and Publishing Company. This company will own its own machin.ery, equipment, linotype. motors, and presses, and is pleasantly and commodiously situated at 10 Park Avenue, Helena. Montana. It makes aspecialty of union job work, bills constitutions, by-laws, aeterheads, andwhatever organised labor may require in the way of printing. We support you; you support us. Labor withdraws its support from its enemlee and co-operates with ts friends.It wile issue special editions dealing with the local lasues in any townor community at the minimum cost, so that any such point may have allthe advantages of a local paper, and scatter it by the thousands.Averesing.The News wil carry a special line of high class advertising, coveringa widespread territory. it has applications from lnd companies.book firms, library associations and other enterprises of a generalcharacter to advertise on a large scale, and will give special attentionto this vuluable feature in the future. The News is an unusually ablemedium as a publicity organ because of Its extended circualtion, entering almost every state and territory in the United gtates, crossing theborders of Canada and Mexico, and going also to many foreign countriesIt is read by the buyers, the chief consumers, the workers, who are soper cent of the population.Pdacy and Prgram.The News will stand for the constructive program of Socialism. Itwill work for the industrial revolution through the conquest of politicalpower by a new class, the workers. It will take an aggreslve pert inall political and municipal activities. It will encourage and serve inevery way the organisation of the workers both Politieally and Indus.trially, It will be first to serve the unions Ia time of trouble and toreprove them for errors that obstruct their progress. It will be laborsstaunchest frlead when in trouble no mater what the cause. It will bethe fearless advocate and labor leader of the Northwest, and the rallylag center for the activities of the Soclalist movement.Plamcl Support.If you want to help In this grand world movement of labor you wantto put some money into it and be a part of It You want to takeseveral shares of stock and get your union and neighbors to take some.You can pay $5. down for each share of stock or you can pay $1.00 amonth for five months, or for as long as you pase, and every 16.00you pay will give you an additional share of stock.This method is a sure winner so far as a solid support for Soelalistenterprises is concerned. It is what has made the success of the KerrPublishing Company, The Uoolal Democratic Herald, and the ChicagoDaily Bociallst. Bverybody's buslness is nobody's business, but deflna.Ite system will make a paper in the west as successful as those In theuat.The News is 50 cents a year, one cent each In budles.Further information can be had by writing 0. A. Brown. Boe 1132.Hei na, Montana, and send al: money for stock to the above address.All subeorlptiors for the News and orders for printing should beaddressed t Montana News, Helena, Montana.The Only Store in HelenaSELLING THE "SIGNAL SHIRTB, OVERALIIS AND JUMP.RS"We Always Have on Hand OnlyThe Very Bea In Gents' FurnishiaglGORDON- MERCANTILE CO.Oppoite Union Depot.Helena Montana